War: The Metaphors Of War

American veteran and novelist, Kurt Vonnegut uses his wartime experiences as a basis for his thought-provoking, antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The novel follows Billy Pilgrim, an American chaplain’s assistant who serves near the end of World War II, through the horrific fire bombings of Dresden and his life after the war. In his novel, Vonnegut presents twentieth century war as traumatic and destructive, however; it is something that cannot be avoided so humans need to develop a means to cope with its effects.

What does Tim O’Brien wants us to understand about war? One thing is that in war you will feel fear. Second, decisions decide what your fate will be. Last, fear will make decisions for you.

According to Article One, Section Eight, Congress has the power “To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;” This means that Congress must be consulted before going to war and has the power to not only declare war, but also the power to raise an army and navy, to fund war effort; however, the President, in Article II, is named commander-in-chief of the armed forces, but this does not give him the power to commit armed forces to war.

The representations of T.I.’s “Warzone” are described as the Discourses of the symbols used. The cultural Discourses of T.I.’s work operate in a way such that they draw upon the way things are in society (Hall 29). Discourses are hegemonic when they operate in this way, meaning that they coincide with the common-sense ideologies of the established order in society (Gitlin). What makes a hegemonic ideology hegemonic is its ability to permeate the institutions of society. By this definition, ideologies of gender are hegemonic because they are arbitrary and successfully implemented in society’s institutions. To elaborate further, there is no particular reason why men and women need separate restrooms, but this is typically the nature of public restrooms in the United States. “Warzone” primarily challenges hegemonic ideologies of race while simultaneously perpetuating such ideologies. “Warzone” is both hegemonic and counterhegemonic through its discourses on black inferiority and its cultural Discourses pertaining to hip-hop.

The war in Vietnam is without a doubt an outlier in comparison to every other U.S. war, specifically as the only war that the U.S. has ever lost. Losing the war may have been a direct result of a draft that placed young men in Vietnam, many of whom had absolutely no personal goals other than survival. This sets the scene for Going After Cacciato and its main character Paul Berlin. The book is told in the form of three stories. Sixteen chapters are a narrative of the real war, focusing on the deaths of the men in Berlin’s squadron, another ten chapters depict a single full night when Berlin decides to take the whole watch rather than wake up one of his companions, and the other twenty chapters center on the squad’s imaginative journey to

War is never seen as something that can only be viewed from one particular point of view. Rather, there are many different points of view and perspectives people can take into thinking about war, as through the scope of mediation. Mediation is looking at certain things in particular ways through aspects like point of view, relation to the event, and translation during the author’s time. One example of looking through something with mediation is Magdeburg mayor Otto Guericke’s view accounting the sack of Magdeburg. Guericke represents a first hand perspective of what happened, because he was actually there and witnessed the destruction personally. Evidence of this is the way he describes destruction, by saying, “The soldiers began to beat and

I found Copenhagen to be intriguing and complex as Frayn combined science with philosophical insight through the story of two of the most significant physicists, Bohr and Heisenberg. The play delves into the battle of ethics regarding the use of science for war efforts. Rather than trying to discover raw facts of the conversation between Bohr and Heisenberg regarding the formation of the atomic bomb, Frayn focuses on the friendship between the two scientists. I find this approach important as it highlights the humanity in the situation. The relationship between the two strains and breaks do to due to their opposing politics and ethics regarding the use of physics in the war. Beneath the structure of their relationship and the concepts of quantum mechanics, Frayn reaches for meaning far deeper.

Football is without a doubt the most popular sport in the United States today. It’s a sport full of contact and few limitations. The sport originated in 1892 and in 1920 The National Football League was introduced. The widespread appeal of football increased tremendously in the twentieth century. For many people, Saturdays during the fall and winter seasons are dedicated to tailgating and attending a game, watching a game on TV, or playing the game in a stadium with a large audience in attendance. While football has many positives, it also shares its negatives in which the fans have ironically fallen in love with, in many ways football is very similar to warfare.

From the review of the literature above, we notice that numerous studies have already analyzed American political rhetoric, therefore, my dissertation, will be a completion of these previous works. Building on Lakoff’s and Johnson’s (1980) study on metaphors and later publications of Lakoff and his followers on the study of metaphors in politics, my main aim is to show how president Bush addressed people and conveyed messages through conceptual metaphors mainly personification and conflict ones.

Dulce et Decorum Est uses extremely graphic imagery to convey the reality of War as seen through the eyes of the poet. At the beginning of the poem the troops were portrayed as ‘drunk with fatigue ‘. It paints a vivid image of large numbers of soldiers dragging themselves through the mud tired beyond anything one can imagine. He talks about them limping on ‘blood-shod’ because many had lost their boots. It paints a dark and miserable picture of what the soldiers had to endure.

Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War, wrote one of the oldest and famous books to be written in history. The Art of War, is a Chinese military treatise that has become more than just for military use, it’s utilized in almost all aspects of today’s world. Businesses, sports, politics, education, and so many more have interpreted The Art of War and used it in their everyday lives. The Art of War portrays fighting as a guide serving a dual purpose, suggesting that strategy is not just useful for fighting but for achieving success in life. There are many quotes by Sun Tzu that relates my personal struggles and accomplishments over the course of my life.

War occurs almost everywhere in the world and can be seen as a means of symbolism and patriotism. The Revolutionary War was fought in order to gain independence. That was the meaning behind that war. However, why do societies go to war, other than to fight for independence? Ever since the beginning of time war has been used as a means to invade another country and rid them of their resources. Whether it’s a war or just invasion, it is still a means of bombarding a country or society without any rights. Regardless of the invasion and the reason being, the people of the country being invaded are affected and so are the veterans invading the country. Most people tend to ignore the internal struggles veterans face post war. The civilians of a war zoned country are also majorly affected in ways many people fail to see because of the lack of media coverage. Most veterans returning from a war struggle from post traumatic stress disorder, individuals in societies are blind to the fact that these people are mentally unstable because of the experience they go through. Most people will salute a veteran because in America it is proper to respect those who served the country. These people aren’t aware that some of these individuals might not want to be reminded of their actions and some of them might not be entirely proud of what they did at war. The civilians are also very much ignored because no one cares about the amount of innocent lives taken every day. The negative impact war

War is full of death and destruction, it is full of a lot of things including literature. In war there are no rules, the same is for literature there are no rules the possibility of what to write about is endless. My fascination of war truly began when my grandfather started to open up about what he went through in the Vietnam War. Most soldiers who have went to war and have come back are not the same as when they left. It is very hard for them to talk about what they have been through while at war, but when they talk one should listen because they may never be able to have the strength to tell that story again. One may not realize how much it takes for a Veteran to tell a story of what they went through, because as they are telling the story they are re-living the story mentally. Most soldiers are not capable of telling stories without having to go through counseling. In most cases if a soldier was to try to tell a story without counseling, they will freak out thinking they are back in the place that brought them the trauma. In today’s world it is mandatory for Veterans to receive counseling to help them with their trauma instead of trying to figure it out their selves. Therefore, war literature is very important because of the meaning behind it all. We should give respect to war literature, especially if it comes from a solider himself. When one should read about war literature they should take into consideration of how hard it might have been for the person to talk

The word war has been used many times, it's been in movies, newspapers, books, and video games but what does it actually mean? War has been in human history before history was even recorded and there isn't just one kind of war there are actually multiple forms of war but there is always one thing that is the same. War is an intentional, widespread conflict between two political or opposing parties. It can range from the indirect political war like elections to the direct and violent world war like World War ll. A quote by Sun Tzu sums up war in "The Art of War” by writing "War is violent action taken to the utmost extreme".

War is an everlasting struggle that seems like a black hole which consumes everything that is around it, sucking all the light out of this world. But the only thing anyone could blame war on is the greed of men and women and their love for materialistic attachments, which tie him or her to this world. They think that power will grant them immortality. The foundation of war profiting has only helped the greed that is in the soul of men and women justify the act of war with a fat check at the end on the month. It also drives them to try and find new ways to increase the cost of war and to make sure that war ends. An example of war profiting is a transaction between the Central Intelligence Agency and private contractors in the year 2005"In early 2005 CIA officials told the Washington